She likes birds!
— Lily on Roz Chast at The Century
I get my back into my living.
— The Who, “Baba O'Riley”
I’m giving everything measles.
— Old lady learning patch, clone stamp, and healing brush in Photoshop
… and gathered my limbs together.
— “The Tale of Sinuhe,” Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (AN1945.40)
So many dolphins, why are there so many dolphins… ohh, mini frogs!
— Lily with her eyes closed
It went well.
— Geoff
They tend to become philosophers of their own work.
— Lydia Davis, “Glenn Gould,” The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
And he said to me, ‘I wish you modest success’
— Ethan Hawke, Rules For A Knight
We should repeal the rules because the economic costs of this far exceed the social benefit.
— Jeb Bush, the Fourth Republican Debate in Milwaukee
Work on something else.
— Jason
It’s art, you have to respect it!
— Security guard at MOMA after I took a large bad photograph that was for taking and crumpled it up and put it back.
Stand up and why?
— Misheard Lily
Sus
Sexual ice-cream… ice-cream that looks hot.
— David Rosenthal
Horsy
— Jason
He was successively a milkman, a truckdriver, a bricklayer, a harvester, a dishwasher, a soldier in Puerto Rico during the war with Spain, a newspaperman, and a student of literature.
— Jorge Luis Borges, An Introduction to American Literature
When I close my eyes I see faces I haven’t drawn yet!
— Lily
Usually I watch animals until they walk away.
— Lily
Hi!
— Lily greeting her first trick-or-treaters
The ground will be moist for gravestones.
— Dad